How Short Can You Be?

[[old] WBC_Rower]

Does anyone know the shortest person ever to break 6:00 for a 2k? If no one that is 5'11" has ever done it, whats the lowest someone of that height has ever got?

[[old] Almostflipped]

<a href='http://concept2.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1183' target='_blank'>http://concept2.ipbhost.com/index.php?s ... 183</a><br /><br />Kudos answers pretty well in the first page. Basically that he's aware of , the shortest rowers to break 6:00 are Jason Read and Andrew Brennan (each standingabout 6'). That I'm aware of, no one has broken 6:00 who is shorter than 6' tall, but that is not to say it isn't possible. Just likely to be very difficult and certainly not done by a lightweight.

[[old] ninthman]

I'd be very very surprised if Andy Brennan wasn't under six feet. I'd guess he's about 5'10".<br /><br />Guy is a <i>beast.</i> Anyone who's his size and pulls a sub-19:00 6k has a serious engine.

[[old] gw1]

I am was 6' 1" and was around 198lb when i last did it in May of 2002 at 41 y.o.<br />Had planned another attempt last Fall prior to the World's but it never happened. It will be at least a year of base rebuilding before i'll be ready again!<br /><br />GW<br />

[[old] PaulS]

It seems that the first <b>Sub-6^2</b> (Sub 6 minute 2k by a sub 6 ft tall person) has yet to be done, and it sounds like Gary may be the fastest "shorty" ever.

[[old] ninthman]

<!--QuoteBegin-PaulS+Feb 19 2005, 11:25 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(PaulS @ Feb 19 2005, 11:25 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It seems that the first <b>Sub-6^2</b>  (Sub 6 minute 2k by a sub 6 ft tall person) has yet to be done, and it sounds like Gary may be the fastest "shorty" ever.  <br /> </td></tr></table><br />I'd bet $10 that Andy Brennan is less than six feet tall. I know height is hard to judge by eye, but I coxed at a U23 camp with him, and he definitely seemed comfortably under six feet to me.

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-ninthman+Feb 19 2005, 09:54 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ninthman @ Feb 19 2005, 09:54 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-PaulS+Feb 19 2005, 11:25 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(PaulS @ Feb 19 2005, 11:25 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It seems that the first <b>Sub-6^2</b>  (Sub 6 minute 2k by a sub 6 ft tall person) has yet to be done, and it sounds like Gary may be the fastest "shorty" ever.   <br /> </td></tr></table><br />I'd bet $10 that Andy Brennan is less than six feet tall. I know height is hard to judge by eye, but I coxed at a U23 camp with him, and he definitely seemed comfortably under six feet to me. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Happy to be corrected, though not having ever seen anything with regards to AndyB, taking that bet would be a bit foolhardy. Didn't they measure the guys at the camp? <br /><br />We could ask Andy, if only he had allowed email to be sent to him through his profile, one of you RowPro users might be able to find out if you run into him online.

[[old] J.D.]

I'm short even for a lightweight (161.5cm) but my best is 7:11.3 which was good enough to break the world record for 30-39LF at the 1997 CRASH-Bs. Unfortunately 3 other (taller) women beat the record by bigger margins in the same race.

[[old] ninthman]

<!--QuoteBegin-J.D.+Feb 21 2005, 06:01 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(J.D. @ Feb 21 2005, 06:01 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm short even for a lightweight (161.5cm) but my best is 7:11.3 which was good enough to break the world record for 30-39LF at the 1997 CRASH-Bs. Unfortunately 3 other (taller) women beat the record by bigger margins in the same race.  <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Let me guess... Schlenker?

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-J.D.+Feb 21 2005, 02:01 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(J.D. @ Feb 21 2005, 02:01 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm short even for a lightweight (161.5cm) but my best is 7:11.3 which was good enough to break the world record for 30-39LF at the 1997 CRASH-Bs. Unfortunately 3 other (taller) women beat the record by bigger margins in the same race.  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />You must feel like the CAN 8+ in the Olympic Heats, they would have had the "Worlds Best Time" except for that pesky USA 8+ that finished 0.1sec ahead of them, dooming them to row an extra race on the way back to the finals. <br /><br />That's a great time BTW!<br /><br />I think Lisa Schlenker is still entering herself in the Open Lwt race at CRASH-B's, apparently not one to go for age classifications. An Amazing athlete!

[[old] Kudos]

you wouldn't need to if you held the world record by as big a margin as she does

[[old] Xavier]

The Boat Race website gives Andrew Brennan's height as 6'0:<br /><br /><a href='http://www.theboatrace.org/people/biogs ... w_Brennan/' target='_blank'>http://www.theboatrace.org/people/biogs ... an/</a><br /><br />So maybe he is! But maybe it doesn't really matter! It's the whole: "Who's the fastest erger who is/does/weighs/ etc ... "<br /><br />Although, I have to say that I'm the fastest British lightweight with a name beginning with X. <br /><br />Xav

[[old] ranger]

<!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Just likely to be very difficult and certainly not done by a lightweight. </td></tr></table><br /><br />If the lightweight WR is already 6:02, it is _inevitable that a lightweight will row under 6:00 at some point. It is certain, sure as shootin', bang on goin' ta happin', you can count of it today if not yesterday, sure, no doubt, here it comes, gonna happen like it or not...<br /><br />ranger

[[old] ninthman]

<!--QuoteBegin-ranger+Feb 22 2005, 03:57 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ranger @ Feb 22 2005, 03:57 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Just likely to be very difficult and certainly not done by a lightweight. </td></tr></table><br /><br />If the lightweight WR is already 6:02, it is _inevitable that a lightweight will row under 6:00 at some point. It is certain, sure as shootin', bang on goin' ta happin', you can count of it today if not yesterday, sure, no doubt, here it comes, gonna happen like it or not...<br /><br />ranger <br /> </td></tr></table><br />If there was a $20,000 prize set out, the lightweight six minute barrier would be broken within a six months.

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-ninthman+Feb 22 2005, 04:09 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ninthman @ Feb 22 2005, 04:09 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If there was a $20,000 prize set out, the lightweight six minute barrier would be broken within a six months. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />That could probably be applied to any Erging World Record, since they have always been accomplished for no monetary reward. Though the $20K seems a little light, considering the overall effort and commitment required. It would also have to be enough to get the person to be willing to put up with all the rantings of the nattering nabobs of nonsense (far more difficult than the physical work, IMO). <br />